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I have called out the women here when they cross the line with feminist diatribes, and answered emasculating jibes with equally effeminating cuts.

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We are permitted no books but such as tend to the weakening and effeminating of the mind.

Lady Mary Wortley Montague Melville, Lewis 1925

Tarzan blamed this weakness, as he considered it, upon his association with the effeminating influences of civilization, for in the bottom of his savage heart he held in contempt both civilization and its representatives -- the men and women of the civilized countries of the world.

Tarzan the Untamed 1920

While Jimmy had always been hugely disgusted with his position, the sight of the girl seemed to have suddenly crystallized all those weeks of self-contempt into a sudden almost mad desire to escape what he considered his degrading and effeminating surroundings.

The Efficiency Expert Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912

I do not find the religions of men at this moment very creditable to them, but either childish and insignificant, or unmanly and effeminating.

XVII. Essays. Worship. 1860 1909

When he is on intimate terms with the woods and mountains, and can laugh at howling gales and the wind beating in his face, and can take care of himself and be happy without the effeminating comforts of steam heat and luxurious beds, a man will prove himself no coward when he comes some day face to face with grave danger.

The Story of Grenfell of the Labrador A Boy's Life of Wilfred T. Grenfell Dillon Wallace 1901

It is true that the ancients deprecated the sexual or at all events the effeminating influence of some kinds of music, but they seem to have regarded it as sedative rather than stimulating; the kind of music they approved of as martial and stimulating was the kind most likely to have sexual effects in predisposed persons.

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man Havelock Ellis 1899

The history of nomad conquerors shows that they become weakened by the enervating climate and the effeminating luxury of the moist and fertile lowlands.

Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography Ellen Churchill Semple 1897

Drinking, day and night, was the general pursuit: vices, the companions of inebriety, followed, effeminating the manly mind. '

The Freethinker's Text Book, Part II. Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History Annie Wood Besant 1890

In the treatment of chronic diseases, the success attending our efforts has been widely appreciated, not only in this, but in other countries where civilization, refinement, luxurious habits, and effeminating customs, prevail.

The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Ray Vaughn Pierce 1877